Sasha Sokolov, Shkola dlia durakov [School for Fools]

Deborah Hodgkinson (Independent Scholar - Europe)

Ed. by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1976

Places

Canada (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Shkola dlia durakov [A School for Fools] is a novel in five chapters. It is narrated in the first person by its schizophrenic adolescent hero known only as “student so-and-so”. The action is divided between the eponymous “School for Fools”, the family’s city apartment and, most vividly of all, the suburban dacha settlement where the student’s family own a summer house. The narration is in the form of an inner dialogue between the two halves of his personality (sometimes perfectly coherent, sometimes more stream-of-consciousness) as he describes his impressions in no discernible order, seamlessly mixing memory with speculation recounting conversations, experiences, and long …

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Citation: Hodgkinson, Deborah. "Shkola dlia durakov". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 April 2005 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16756, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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